South Yorkshire Navigation Canal

[BendSomeCane]

An afternoon attempting a few perch on the navigation with Pennine Lad was in store today ...
Quite mild I thought .... today they might chew...

Bloody difficult in the wind which did not know which direction to blow !

4 hours without a bite ...then the last 20 mins before dusk.. the dip of the bob...

The bending 50yr old cane..a fish of one pound ten ounces





‘‘Tis a wide featureless unpleasant stretch of old industrial canal built many a year ago ... but it’s stuffed with these

Bendsomecane

[Jeremy Croxall]

Nice fish, well done chaps!

[Penninelad]

As usual only takes me along to take the photographs!

[Liphook]

Nice canal perch but surely that rod is glass fibre?

[Hovis]

Nice canal perch but surely that rod is glass fibre?

I suspect it's most likely Spanish reed.

Fine perch too!

[BendSomeCane]

Nice canal perch but surely that rod is glass fibre?

Gentlemen, it is whole cane bottom and middle it’s a spliced split insert, Pennine Lad suspects it’s a millwards and it’s marked The Welland E Stamford Sheffield.

I bought it from an old friend whom when he got married in 1965, he claimed his father had bought it just before he married.

Bendsomecane

[Barbelseeker]

Ernest Stamford - he bought baskets off my dad.

[Banksy]

The biggest of all fish, no matter what its size.

Nice catch BSC, well done for persisting that long without a bite!

I quite like fishing old industrial canals, in their own way they have as much character and heritage as some of our more famous and revered
waters.

[Liphook]

I stand corrected - I'm not familiar with painted whole cane but as ever on here I'm learning

[TrentFisher]

Well done Gents,
Perch just love 'um regardless of size.....just as well mine have all been small 'uns lately.
This time of year ,that last hour is a magic time,it makes the hairs on the back of neck stand up as the anticipation builds when out on an adventure.
The number of times you manage to get a result during that moment in time.
Fabulous ...all the best on your next outing.
-Nige.